Different kinds of food

Frozen food

 

Dish  

My favorite dish is fried chicken.

Casserole 砂锅

My favorite dish is vegetable/ chicken casserole. 砂锅蔬菜/砂锅鸡肉

Stir-fry 炒

I prefer stir-fried vegetables. 炒蔬菜

 

Dessert

I usually have some dessert fruits after meals. 作为甜食的水果

Fruit salad 水果沙拉

Sometimes I have fruit salad for dessert.

Food and your health

Be good for

Be bad for

Health food 绿色食品（未施农药）

 

Junk food

Junk food contains a lot of fat, salt, and sugar.

be past its sell-by date 过了保质期

I am very careful not to buy some food which has been past its sell-by date.

 

Protein 蛋白质

Eggs are a good source of protein.

Carbohydrates 碳水化合物

Most vegetables and fruit are very low in carbohydrates.

 

Fat

I don’t like meat with too much fat.

 

Vitamin

There is a lot of Vitamin C in oranges.

 

Calorie

Chocolate is very high in calories.

Diet

I eat a healthy/ unhealthy diet.

Keeping food

Go bad/ off

I left the fridge open all night and all the food’s gone off.

 

Rotten 腐烂的

Rotten tomatoes have a nasty smell.

 

Sour （牛奶）变酸的

When the milk has gone sour, don’t drink it.

 

Fridge 冰箱

Defrost 解冻

I need to defrost the frozen chicken before cooking it.

 

Addictive 添加剂

I prefer food with no artificial addictives/ chemical additives. 人造添加剂/ 化学添加剂

 

Preservative 防腐剂

Junk food usually contains lots of additives and preservatives.

 

Egg

Eggshell鸡蛋壳

Egg white 鸡蛋清

Egg yolk 鸡蛋黄

Crack the eggs into a bowl.

 

Boiled eggs

I have boiled eggs for breakfast.

Soft-boiled/ hard-boiled 煮嫩的/煮老的

I prefer soft-boiled eggs to hard-boiled ones.

Scrambled eggs 炒鸡蛋（用牛奶和黄油）

I sometimes have scrambled eggs without milk or butter.

Omelet煎蛋（常加入奶酪﹑ 作料﹑ 蔬菜等）

(saying 谚) (one can't) make an omelette without breaking eggs  (one can't) achieve a desired aim without some loss or damage 不打破鸡蛋就做不成煎蛋卷; 不破不立。